Recently I posted about our family of New York Studio School influences, and Tina Kraft. I found a few more drawings that show aspects of a process that changed the way I draw. These portrait sketches by Tina Kraft demonstrate a technique of using marks to activate the white paper. The marks are both in …
Tuesday is Memory and Imagination day in our 30 Day Challenge. Dreams are today’s topic. I’ve collected artworks with dream imagery, or at least artworks that were stirred up when I searched Google for artworks with “Dream” in the title. Your challenge today is to recreate a dreamscape. You can draw, paint, print, collage, assemblage, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”6674″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] We are almost at the end of this 30 day challenge, so I’ll be coming up with fresh topics to post. Our mailing list has grown by several hundreds of people this month, and I’d like to hear from subscribers. Why did you sign up for V. Notes, and …
Monotypes are like a painter’s sketch, run through the press. They’re both more immediate, and more re-workable than any other form of printmaking. Once through the press, you can draw or paint on it, or you can do something else and run it through again. It’s instant, and it’s surprising. Every time I do it …
Painters named Alex
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[image_with_animation image_url=”6674″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] We are almost at the end of this 30 day challenge, so I’ll be coming up with fresh topics to post. Our mailing list has grown by several hundreds of people this month, and I’d like to hear from subscribers. Why did you sign up for V. Notes, and …
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Monotypes are like a painter’s sketch, run through the press. They’re both more immediate, and more re-workable than any other form of printmaking. Once through the press, you can draw or paint on it, or you can do something else and run it through again. It’s instant, and it’s surprising. Every time I do it …